JSSISI: Symposia: Recent submissions

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    • Trinity Week Academic Symposium - Origins, mission and significance 

      Daly, Mary E. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2007)
      This symposium celebrates the launch of a dedicated website of the proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, and its direct ancestor the Dublin Statistical Society. The Dublin Statistical Society ...

    • Trinity Week Academic Symposium - Data for policy and research 

      O'Hanlon, G. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2007)
      The availability of high quality statistical data on economic and social conditions is a fundamental prerequisite for ensuring an effective partnership between policy makers and academic researchers in contributing to the ...

    • Trinity Week Academic Symposium - Open access revolution: the local and national context 

      Brennan, Niamh (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2007)
      The title of this Academic Symposium comes from a paper read before Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland on Thursday, 14th January 1897, which refers to ?the grievances of prejudiced patriots or the dreams of ...

    • Trade and development: the challenges facing the WTO Doha development road 

      Morahan, John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2006)
      The WTO Ministerial meeting in Doha in November 2001 launched a new Round of world trade talks known as the Doha Development Agenda or Death. DDA represents a new approach to the goal of integrating developing countries ...

    • Symposium on the economic returns to education 

      Walsh, Brendan M. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)
      In my contribution to this Symposium I wish to explore two main themes. The first deals with the contribution of education to economic growth at the macro level. In this part I shall discuss the evidence of the importance ...

    • Symposium on the economic returns to education 

      Hyland, Aine (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)
      The Second Programme for Economic Expansion, published in 1963, was the first public acknowledgement by the Irish government that expenditure on education was an investment in the nation?s future. It was to be many years ...

    • Symposium on the economic outlook for 1954 

      Carter, C. F.; Robson, P.; Cuthbert, Norman; Black, W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)
      We are proceeding in this symposium from the general to the particular; and my task is to discuss in the broadest terms the general economic outlook for the United Kingdom in 1954. This seems to me to involve two questions, ...

    • Symposium on the present and future of inland transport 

      Carter, C. F.; Bailie, J. C.; Streight, R. L.; Johnson, Martin; Black, W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1957)
      The Statistical Society of Ireland is nearly 110 years old, and it has discussed the problems of Irish transport on some twenty-five occasions: for instance, over 90 years ago it was discussing the nationalisation of the ...

    • Symposium on the Report of the Commission on Emigration and other population problems 

      Carter, C. F.; Duncan, G. A.; Nevin, Donal; O Buachalla, Liam (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)
      My comments are limited to two points, one demographic and one economic. In matters demographic Ireland is obviously out of step with the rest of the world, and it is difficult to avoid the sense of guilt which comes ...

    • Symposium on national income and social accounts 

      McCarthy, M. D.; Duncan, G. A.; Whitaker, T. K.; Lynch, Patrick (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1952)
      The series of tables and notes which form the kernel of this contribution to the Society's symposium on National Income are designed as an appendix to the recent White Paper,1 which contained the official estimates of ...

    • A symposium on inflation 

      Geary, Patrick T.; McCormack, Dara; Ryan, Terence (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1975)
      Inflation is widely regarded as the major problem facing the world economy. After more than a decade of relatively slow growth in wage and price levels, following the inflation associated with the Korean war, wages and ...

    • Symposium on social security 

      Eason, J. C. M.; Coyne, E. J.; Mortished, R. J. P.; Henderson, R.; Johnston, Joseph; McElhinney, John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1950)
      When I was asked to make some comments upon the White Paper entitled ?Social Security? no indication was given as to the particular aspect with which I was expected to deal. The paper is of importance because it summarises ...

    • A symposium on increasing employment in Ireland 

      Kennedy, Kieran A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1976)
      The current recession has focussed widespread attention on the employment problem. The present difficulties are evidenced by the very high rate of unemployment, the falling level of employment in manufacturing, and the ...

    • Trade and industry 

      Fitzpatrick, Jim (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1985)
      This paper discusses trade aspects of Ireland's relations with Third World countries. As implied in the overall title of the symposium, "Ireland, Europe and the Third World", the topic is dealt with in a European Community ...

    • Symposium on the Buchanan Report 

      Northcott, Jim; Ryan, Pierce; Ryan, Liam (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1970)
      The aim of the regional development studies was to work out a strategy for regional development which would offer the best possible prospects of achieving the aim of a full employment society, equated in the National ...

    • Symposium on the privatisation of state assets and state commercial companies 

      Cassells, Peter (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1988)
      In a recent article in the Irish Times (November 5 1987) Political Editor Dick Walsh pointed out that "calling for privatisation now sounds like a singularly ill-timed appeal to give capitalism another chance. It sounds ...

    • Symposium on science and Irish economic development 

      Howie, D. I. D.; Nevin, T. E.; Vincent, A. V. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1967)
      None of us, I suppose, would deny the basic assumption that greater efforts in research and technology would strengthen the economy, whether through improved agriculture or improved and diversified industrial output. If ...

    • Symposium on Investment in Education 

      Cannon, Patrick F. G.; McCarthy, Charles; O Eocha, Colm (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1966)
      The recent publication of Investment in Education, prepared under joint Irish and O.E.C.D. auspices, has been an event of major importance in Irish education. The members of the survey team would, I feel sure, be amongst ...

    • Symposium on the Interim Report on Equal Pay of the Commission on the Status of Women - a trade union viewpoint 

      Ownes, Evelyn (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1972)

    • Symposium on the Idea of a University in the 1990s 

      Gibson, Norman (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1990)
      In the centenary year of Cardinal Newman's death and when universities and higher education are under widespread and critical appraisal it is fitting and timely that the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland ...